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Kickstarter Campaign Reaches Nearly $100,000 to Pre-Sell Cookbooks

March 5, 2013 by diannejacob 31 Comments

(Disclosure: After working on this post, I bought this cookbook. I love foraging and viewing beautiful images of plants, and these two women impressed me. If you wish to do the same, act now, as time is running out.)

Herbalist Dina Falconi teaches people about plants, herbs and foraging in the wild, and has done so for about 30 years. Now that foraging for edible plants is trendy, she decided the time is right for a crowd funded cookbook. As the writer of Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair, a recipe book for body care products published in 1998 from a small press, Falconi knew about the process.

Her book idea took shape about three years ago, when Wendy Hollender, a professional illustrator, moved to Falconi’s New York neighborhood. Falconi asked Hollender if she wanted to ilustrate a cookbook on foraging and feasting. “With her skills, I could direct her art to be [Read more…] about Kickstarter Campaign Reaches Nearly $100,000 to Pre-Sell Cookbooks

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Promotion, Self Publishing Tagged With: cookbook writing, food writing, foraging, illustrated cookbooks, Kickstarter, self-publishing cookbooks

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